[mb-users] Is their an artist property for an artists place of birth ?

[Paul Taylor]

Philip Jägenstedt wrote:
> In other words, if I know that a person was born in France I'm not
> able to convey that information because the required format
> (geographical coordinates) are more specific than I know. I think this
> would be the case for a very large portion of our artists, as detailed
> biographic information isn't available for most less known artists.
> But I shouldn't say I oppose any of this strongly, since I'm actually
> not that passionate about the issue (or shouldn't be).
>   
I think in your example you are actually taking about Nationality  
rather than PlaceofBirth, perhaps both would be useful. Of couse 
nationaility can change, and people can have dual nationaility, but 
these are the exceptions rather than the rule.

> Wikipedia does not provide RDF formatted data that I am aware, and
> neither does MusicBrainz (anymore), my point is just that instead of
> tying more data not related to music into the database we ought to
> work towards solutions where we can use the work that others have
> already done instead of duplicating the effort.
>   
But musicbrainz provides an equivalent, the XMLwebservice i.e semnatic 
web, wikipeda does not. Your right that we shouldnt add non-music 
related data to Musicbrainz, but if it is music related we should because
Musicbrainz does a more better job than anybody else, and if MB doesnt 
do it the information will get lost. I think Place of Birth/Band 
Conception is music related as it has a great effect on the style of 
music of the artist, such as 'Madchester' (manchester) or Grunge (Seattle).

Paul